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Culture. — These plants may be increased by 

 suckers, layer*, and cuttings. 



Tin suckers are sent from the roots in great 

 plenty; these should be taken from the old 

 plants in autumn, and be planted in a nursery, 

 to crow one or two years till they have obtained 

 sufficient strength, when they may be removed 

 to the places where they arc to remain. 



The layers may be laid down in the autumn, 

 being made from the young twigs. These may 

 be taken off in the following autumn, when well 

 rooted, beiii" planted out wherctheyare to remain. 



The cuttui£rs of the young shoots may be 

 planted in the autumn, in a shady situation, 

 where they soon form plants. 



The plants arc extremely hardy, and thrive 

 in almost any soil or situation, but grow taller 

 in light 2'ood ground than in that which is 

 stifl". 



They arc commonly disposed in plantations 

 of flowering shrubs, among others of the same 

 growth ; mixing very well with lilacs, gelder 

 roses, and laburnums; and particularly valuable 

 from their thriving under the shade of trees, 

 and forming a blockade against low buildings, 

 where persons have no objection to their strong 

 smell. 



PHILLYREA, a genus containing plants of 

 the hardy evergreen shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandria 

 ilonogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Sep iarieu. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium,' tubular, four-toothed, very 

 small, permanent: the corolla onc-petalled, 

 funnel-form : tube scarcely any : border four- 

 parted, revolute, acute ; segments ovate : the 

 stamina have two filaments, opposite, short : 

 anthers simple, erect : the pistillum is a supe- 

 rior roundish germ : style simple, the length of 

 the stamens : stigma thickish : the pericarpium 

 is an ovate-globular, two-celled berry : the seeds 

 solitary, rlattish on one side, convex on the 

 other, one of them frequently abortive. 



The species are : 1 . P. media, Lance-leaved 

 Phillyrca ; 2. P. angustifolia, Narrow-leaved 

 Phillvrea ; 3. P. latifolia, Broad-leaved Phil- 

 lyrca. 



The first rises to an equal height with the 

 third or true sort, but the branches are more 

 diffused, and have a darker bark : the leaves are 

 of a darker green, arc more than two inches 

 long, and almost an inch and hall broad, a little 

 serrate on their edges, opposite on short loot- 

 stalks : the flowers axillary, in long bunches, of 

 an herbaceous white colour. 



There are several varieties : namely, the privet- 

 leaved and olive-leaved ; which are of humbler 



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growth, seldom more than tight or ten feet high I 

 the branches of the lir t are weaker, and spread 

 wider, and arc covered with a light brown 

 bark : the leaves are stifl, almost two inches long, 

 and half an inch broad in the middle, drawing to a 

 point at both ends, and sit close to the branches: 

 the flowers arc in little axillary clusters, small 

 and whiter. In the litter the branches are 

 stronger, and spread out wider; the bark is of 

 a lighter colout : the leaves arc stiff", smooth, 

 and entire, on very short footstalks, of a lucid 

 green, and terminating in a point: the flowers 

 in clusters, on pretty long peduncles, from the 

 axils of the young branches, small and white. 

 And in the Kew catalogue there are three other 

 varieties mentioned : namely, the long-branched, 

 which has long upright branches; the drooping, 

 which has the branches hanging down and 

 straddling ; and the box-leaved. 



The second species has the stalk ten or twelve 

 feet high, sending out opposite branches, covered 

 with a brown bark spotted with white: the leaves 

 are smooth, stiff", narrow, entire, sessile, about 

 an inch and half long, and half an inch broad 

 in the middle, drawing to a point at both ends, > 

 of a light green, and pointing upwards : the 

 flowers come out in large clusters at each joint 

 of the branches, sitting close like whorled 

 flowers, and almost surrounding them; they 

 are small and white. 



There is a variety termed rosemary-leaved, 

 which is of humbler growth, seldom rising 

 more than four or five feet high, sending out 

 slender, opposite, straight branches, sparsedly 

 disposed : the leaves dark green, stiff", and en- 

 tire ; about an inch long, and not more than an 

 eighth of an inch broad, sessile: the flowers are 

 small, white, in clusters from the side of the 

 branches: the berries very small, rarely ripening 

 in this climate. And in the Kew catalogue 

 another variety is mentioned, under the name 5 of 

 Dwarf Phillvrea. 



The third, True or Smooth Broad-leaved, rises 

 with a strong upright stem to the height of 

 eighteen or twenty feet, dividing into several 

 branches, covered with a smooth grayish bark : 

 the leaves arc entire (or obscurely serrate), firm, 

 of a light green, an inch and half long, and an 

 inch broad, on short footstalks: the flowers are 

 axillary, on each side, of an herbaceous white 

 colour, in small clusters ; they come out in 

 March, but being small make no great appear- 

 ance. 



There is a variety, the prickly broad-leaved, 

 which is as high as the smooth one, and sends 

 out several strong branches, which crow erect, 

 and are covered with a gray bark : the leaves are 

 an iuch and half long, and an inch broad, (inn. ' 



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